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Three Scientific Clerihews

I.

The great Albert Einstein
Would appreciate a fine wine,
And after sipping a little
He would play upon his fiddle 

II.

The legendary chemist Linus Pauling
Found the hydrogen and atom bombs appalling,
And after winning one for chemistry he would not cease
Until he won another Nobel Prize for peace.

III.

Madame Marie Sklodowska Curie
Was just as famous as could be—
Amidst the fin-de-siècle

Categories: clerihews, humorous,
Form: Clerihew

World Cup Clerihews

An English goal scorer,named Kane
in Russia '18 found world-wide fame.
With six goals,he has the Golden Boot
for with both head and foot,he could shoot.

a striker,one,Christiano Ronaldo
In the World Cup,gave a one-man-show,
With hat-tricks galore
Goals of skill,never seen,before

Categories: clerihews, football, people, soccer, sports,
Form: Clerihew

Just a Few Clerihews

Warning, if you are under 60 you may not "get" some of these.

Mohammad Ali
taunting with poetry,
his opponents he'd zing
as he danced 'bout the ring.

Graham Kerr "The Galloping Gourmet"
oft with our minds he would play.
Why else would he pick
the dessert "Spotted Dick"?

Ichabod Crane
rode down rode down the lane.
From the Headless Horseman he'd flee
while on his saddle

Categories: clerihews, fun,
Form: Clerihew

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

On the Death of Mohammed Ali, Three Clerihews

The man was a legend.  

So farewell, Cassius Clay, Ali
You knocked out a bit of poetry
That butterfly one sure packed a sting
And well done on the boxing thing

Mohammed, man, you’re counted out
You gave the boxing thing a shout
Wrote rhyme to make a grown man cry
And dodged the draft like a butterfly

Ali, you’ve packed your

Categories: clerihews, death, hero, humor, loss,
Form: Clerihew

Tom Cruise Clerihews

World famous actor Tom Cruise
in talent and looks cannot lose.
Success is the guy’s middle name.
It’s his love life he just can’t maintain!

A younger and hotter Tom Cruise
must have had to wear lifts in his shoes.
His first wife Nicole was so tall!
Did size ever matter at all?

With a much younger starlet, Tom Cruise
got attached, and it

Categories: clerihews, people,
Form: Clerihew

Clerihews of the Original Three of Four and Me- Three of My Original Four Favorite Poets

Her name is Seren
Yes the proud welsh girl, not foe, hopefully a  fren
The number of contest she entered, maybe a million
On a scale of 1 to 10, I’d give her a billion

She has passionately stated her favorite color is green
She talked about more shades than I think I’ve seen
My vision isn’t great, but good

Categories: clerihews, funny, green, may, me,
Form: Clerihew

Some Clerihews To Make Jack Laugh Or Scoff

Jack Ellison wasn't from Nantucket
I read prose that his cleaning lady had a nice bucket
But he vowed to look in silence quite as a mouse
For fear of sleeping in the perpetual doghouse

PD, appears and disappears like whoodini
I have seen the poems where she's a meanie
She also wrote about trading seeds for a donkey
She could have

Categories: clerihews, funny, write, write,
Form: Clerihew

Clerihews Fini

PEE WEE HERMAN
Thought cops wouldn’t determine,
he put himself in that popcorn box.
Maybe he should have used his socks.

HOWARD HUGHES
A world famous recluse.
Millions for planes, women and cars,
treasured most his urine in jars.

CATHERINE THE GREAT
A czarina whose needs couldn’t wait.
Rumored to have a private stable,
with horses…. if her Cossacks weren’t able.

AESOP
May his fables never stop,
true treasures

Categories: clerihews, funny, life, people,
Form: Clerihew

Dabbling With Clerihews

COLUMBUS

Signore Christopher Columbus came up with a wacky notion.
He claimed he could reach India by crossing the Atlantic Ocean!
"Just think of all them spices and gold! We ain't got nothin' to lose!"
Queen Isabella thought him nuts but reluctantly funded the cruise.

LT COLONEL CUSTER

Arrogant Custer thought he was the greatest thing since the invention of dynamite!
He

Categories: clerihews, funny
Form: Clerihew

Clerihews

I learned something the other day that I never knew.
There is a form of poetry known as the clerihew!
'Tis a form of rhyme about a luminary of some fame,
And the first line must contain the feller's name.

Alexander Graham Bell, as every schoolboy has known,
Was the genius who invented the mysterious telephone.
'Tis well known that he

Categories: clerihews, funny
Form: Clerihew